ballot
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈbælət/
:
papeleta
- About 400 ballots were cast in that election.
- secret ballot
- paper ballot
- ballot box
Breckenridge was not on the ballot in three northern states.
- Breckenridge was not on the ballot in three northern states.
- The print wasn't dark enough to make the ballot readable by the machine.
- So we are now, we have enough, we're on the ballot in the seven states.
- Donald Trump believes that if you request a mail in ballot, then mail in ballots are OK.
- They allowed for various counties to provide for curing of the ballots if there was a defect.
- Your screaming blue haired girlfriend doesn't have to see your ballot.
- I think that he is trying to install people in every down ballot race up through Congress and the Senate.
- We have great ideas, and when our ideas are taken on ballot measures, most of the time they win.
- The second Congressional District, we put up Fannie Lou Hammer on the mock ballot.
- Co host, producer, best friends, they live next to us and when the when the ballots come, we just drop it off in their mailbox.
- When you get what you look at a ballot, it says Republican, Democrat, nothing else.
Examples
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Breckenridge was not on the ballot in three northern states.
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As a member of ITEA, Kris has served on the Ballot Counting Committee for the past four years.
Academic text (2008) -
You will find in front of you your ballot paper.
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A paper ballot will be sent if we do not have your e-mail address.
Academic text (2015) -
I hope you will consider putting his name on the voting ballot this year.
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In Brazil there was a complicated paper ballot system.
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Voters then cast ballots that were counted, and local results were promptly announced.
Academic text (1997) -
Now I know how I'll cast my absentee ballot come re-election.
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By contrast, each of the seventy-one lower court judges on the ballot was easily reelected.
Academic text (2011) -
Voters were asked to fill out their ballot before leaving the polling station.
Compounds
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3.9
A ballot a person fills out and mails before election day because they cannot go to the polling place
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ballot as a paper takes its name from the same 'small ball' idea, because the paper does the same job as the old ball used to show a vote. That's why a ballot is the paper where you mark your choice.